The system is weird, but cool. You have a dice pool, depending on your proficiency level, and to succeed on a task one of your dice needs to exceed the goal number. However, depending on your proficiency, you have a variable number of either D6's, D10's or D20's. Taking a lot of D6's, you're virtually guaranteed to succeed at ordinary tasks, but its impossible to succeed on higher levels of task. Taking D20's, you can succeed on very high goal numbers, but you can also much more easily fail lower ones.

Another one I've heard about, which looks good- Eclipse Phase.

Transhuman future, with lots of cool fluff about AI's and panhuman races, where the PC's are people who deal with "Existential Risks"- problems so great they could cause the extinction of the whole species.

The website, if anyone's interested- http://eclipsephase.com/

The Riddle of Steel.
Game is out of print, but if you can find copies of the books, I highly recommend picking them up. One of the best advancement and melee combat systems I've ever seen in an RPG.

>>4380681
Addendum: Be ready to be told how it's MORE REALISTIC THAN D&D BECAUSE THE AUTHOR IS VERY SMART ABOUT SWORDFIGHTS.

Don't Rest Your Head

The premise of the game is this: you are an insomniac. And not just a normal insomniac any more - one of the Awake. You can see the secret entrances into the Mad City, the extra rooms and doors and whole buildings that you couldn't see before. And now that you can see it, the Nightmares that live in the Mad City can see you too. Staying awake means confronting the insanity. Going to sleep is suicide.

>>4380707

lol realism

what a load of bollocks

>>4380771

Fuck Yeah, Don't Rest Your Head! Fucking awesome game.

Also, has one of the best sourcebooks ever- Don't Lose Your Mind is so fucking awesome. Even if you don't use the powers, it really makes the Madness mechanic feel, well, insane...

We had someone who could say "No" and stop things. Anything. It was awesome. They ended up going nightmare, and exploded because the universe kept existing when they said No to it.

>>4380771

This game is amazing and the Don't lose your mind suppliment is amazing also. I seriously recommend it. If i had my own copy i'd pdf the thing, i only wish it was somewhere on the net so people could get a try before they buy.

Did i mention its awesome?

>>4380830

Both DRYH and DLYM are on /rs/, if you know how to look (Hint- Don't has an apostrophe). I downloaded, then bought, both.

>>4380840

Pardon my ignorance but apostrophe or not, I cant find any results for it.

>>4380830
What the fuck? Dude, it's on /rs/. We upped it last time I made a DRYH, reminded /tg/ of its awesomeness, and told them about DLYM.

>>4380840
Good man, I'm doing exactly the same. My LGS is taking MONTHS to get the goddamn books though. Sons of bitches.

Having trouble finding it on RS : / you got me interested, i want to read it

>>4380611
So, OP... Why isn't Lesser Shades of Evil on /rs/ yet? Shit sounds interesting enough.

I found DLYH but not DRYM

>>4380888
>>>/rs/dryh

Found the print version, can't find the screen version.

>>4380879

Its a really obscure game. I picked it up out of curiosity from my LGS, and was surprised at how good it was. However, I'm currently without a scanner. When I go home (Currently at Uni) I could scan it up, if /tg/ would like, although my scanner is pretty old, so it'd probably be bad quality

For those who have difficulty finding DRYH/DLYM, your search-fu is weak

http://rapidshare.com/files/118889612/dryh_lightweight_version.pdf.html

http://www.mediafire.com/?2dyzltzznm4

>>4380895
Do you mean bad quality, or illegible quality? I can live with bad quality until I see if it's balls awesome enough to justify a quest to find a better scan.

>>4380903
So only the print version is up there? If that's really the case, I'll up the screen version for you beautiful bitches.

Engel:

A biblical fantasy RPG, set in the 27th century after the Biblical End Times has fallen over the land. The PCs are either "engels" or their human allies -- where engels are essential angels created to battle insectile demons known as the Dreamseed. The original German edition uses a system (the "Arcana" system) using tarot cards, with an emphasis on storytelling.

Don't get the English version, it uses D&D mechanics.

>>4380912

I love you.

>>4380913
>Don't get the English version
... Dude, I don't speak German goddamn.

>>4380904

Unsure. It'll be legible, but I'm not sure if any of the cool art etc will survive.

A review of it, which has quite a lot of the info in the book summarised in it- http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13010.phtml

>>4380920

Try for a translation then.

>>4380923
Well, if you fancy going to the effort of scanning it, it would be appreciated. If you don't feel like doing it right the fuck now, then that's cool too.

>>4380946
Touche.

>>4380993

As I said earlier, I'll only be able to scan it when I go home, and that won't be for a couple of weeks at least. However, when I'm there, I'll have nothing better to do, and it'd be good to contribute something to /tg/ for once.

DRYH screen version currently uploading to rapidshare.
However, it's telling me this ---

100 % (Infinity KB from 10719 KB)
Upload speed: 14 KB/Sec, Time remaining: 8:52 minutes

So I don't know what the fuck it thinks is going on. I'll let the timer run down, see if it's downloadable, then let you guys know.

>>4381005
Oh WEEKS... I see. You crazy Americans. Well thanks - I'll be sure to keep an eye out for a relevant thread and will check /rs/ regularly.

This game looks pretty interesting, reading the print version now.

>>4381015
Okay... it SEEMS to have uploaded.
http://rapidshare.com/files/225201426/Don_t_Rest_Your_Head_-_Corebook.pdf.html

>>4381024

I'm actually British, I just go to a Uni quite a way from my home, and only go back every couple of weeks.

>>4381145
Huh, fair enough. I'm Australian, and Uni is about a 15 minute drive from my home. We are a lazy people.

I know its not exactly obscure, but Spirit of the Century deserves a mention. Epic and exciting tales of pulp heroism, derring-do and nobility in a bygone age. Look it up, its awesome.

Little Fears, anyone?

Also, Orpheus. The best game in oWoD.

>>4381251

Little fears I know and love

Orpheus? Please explain

>>4381299
Orpheus is a role playing game by White Wolf Game Studio, set in a microcosm of the World of Darkness. Unlike the other World of Darkness game lines, Orpheus has a specifically planned metaplot and a set number of books that were published. Although it uses the same system as White Wolf's other games, ghosts and spirits are the exclusive focus of this story. Other supernatural creatures in the World of Darkness are strongly discouraged from entering the events of Orpheus. It is, however, tied with Wraith: The Oblivion, White Wolf's previous game dealing with the afterlife; some of the events in Orpheus are related to Ends of Empire, the final book in the Wraith: The Oblivion line.

>>4381319
Characters in Orpheus are either living individuals capable of astral projection (via meditation or cryonics) or are ghosts of the recently deceased. It is assumed that characters work for the Orpheus Group, a company that employs the talents of projectors and spirits to investigate and clear ghostly activity and perform other tasks difficult for those without access to the world of the dead. The way a person manifests as a ghost is called the Lament; two Laments are projection-based, while two are based on a person being dead.

>>4381328
* Skimmers use drugs and meditative techniques to temporarily eject their souls from their bodies. While they can enter and exit the spirit world quickly, their close connection to their empty shells means damage they take as a ghost manifests on their bodies.
* Sleepers are cryonically frozen; once the body reaches a certain temperature, it is "dead" and ejects the spirit. While in stasis, the body is treated with special drugs to keep necrosis from setting in. While it keeps sleepers from the close connections skimmers have that allows them to be injured, the process means that both entering and leaving the world of ghosts is a slow process.
* Spirits are your run-of-the-mill dead person, souls who have unfinished business that allow them to remain on earth. Most who work for Orpheus have a high-degree of independence because of a remarkable willpower they held in life that transitions to death; not all spirits, however, are able to keep their independent attitudes when they die and become doomed to repeat themselves endlessly.
* Hues are spirits with one major difference; while alive, they took the designer drug pigment. Pigment keeps a spirit from feeling ultimately fulfilled, so while a hue may be as stubborn as a spirit, they have more fragile forms and are closer to their dark sides.

>>4381337
Each character has a set of special traits, called a Shade, which determine how they manifest and what ghostly powers (or Horrors) they are able to use and which ones they cannot. There are eight Shades total; the first five were introduced in the Orpheus corebook, while the remaining three were introduced in three of the supplements.

* Banshees are the empathetic shades, full of compassion. They manifest their abilities of emotional manipulation, physical damage, and looking into the future through their voices.
* Haunters are those who care for things over people. This focus allows them to manipulate inanimate objects and machines to a disturbing degree.
* Poltergeists are usually full of rage, either quiet or overt. This allows them to pick up objects without touching them directly, and also to alter their own forms in violent ways.
* Skinriders are control-freaks. They are granted the ability to possess the bodies of others and bend them to their will.
* Wisps are the trickster shade. They have abilities that allow them to draw attention, escape in a flash, or manipulate ghostly items.
* Phantasms, introduced in Shades of Gray, are the artists and dreamers. They can see and manipulate the dreams of the living.
* Orphan-Grinders, introduced in The Orphan-Grinders, are ghosts who gave in to their dark sides, and then came back. They can use the abilities of the dark ghosts, or Spectres.
* Marrow, introduced in End Game, can adapt to any situation. Appropriately, they are shapeshifters and also have a rapport with animals.

>>4381110
I don't know if anybody else said it but -Thanks.

And let me mention Kult. Somewhat similar in concept to DRYH with a hidden world you can only see as you become more insane/evil or angelic/good. Very flavorful.

Orpheus is the name of the company your characters work for. You receive missions, typically weird stuff the government can't quite figure out, or private contracts for people who want to utilize "alternative means" for their own purposes.

For example, the mission might be... A high ranking CEO knows he is being targeted for espionage, but he can't show weakness by upping official security. HE comes to your controller, and asks for a "special" security detail. Depending on your type, you have to figure out how to approach the issue. Are you a Skimmer? If so, you can stake out teh place in your van, and when you see something sketchy, put back the seat, lay back, enter your trance, emerge in ghost mode, walk through walls, stand in the room while people are talking though they can't see you, take mental notes, and then report back.

Of course.... you might see another ghost-agent from another company... and then there is the chasing, and the running, and the going back to your body to find the guy, if he doesn't have other team members on the look out for you.....

Oh, and then there are the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad ghosts.

So, you get your heiress spinster who thinks her young lover is stepping out on her. You are a Sleeper, which means you can only project from your tank at Orpheus headquarters (if you haven't somehow stolen and replicated the technology at home, that is). She wants you to tail him, and if he is, put the fear of god into him.

You're a poltergeist, which lets you manipulate the real world from the ghost side.... so when he drops his pants, you trip him. Throw around some tv's, break some windows, fling knives and such about. You're having a blast until a fucking Jason comes through the door, attracted to your ghostly presence.

For the uninitiated... a Jason is an unstoppable engine of destruction, known for terrorizing teenagers at lake-side summer camps.

So this..this THING comes through the wall, murders the two people, and then looks right at you. Now, you know you're a ghost, so there shouldn't be any way in hell you can be looked at, but it's staring right into your eyes. It picks up the dead guy by the leg, and hurls him at you. Now, normally, you're a ghost, you don't have flesh, you have gauze, the physical doesn't interact with you... but this body, infused with Jasonness, knocks you twenty feet back, into the wall.

You are on you ass in the next room. Your pod shakes visably back at Orpheus headquarters, and the technician calls his supervisor, because something fucked up is going on in pod #7. You try to get up, but the Jason comes through the wall again, and grabs you by the throat. He slams your confused ghost shell into the wall, again, and again, before he begins to squeeze... and as you feel the lack of life being choked out of you, there is a flash of light.... the techs have defibbed you to bring you back to the world of the living, essentially pulling your spiritual ripcord, forcing your essence back into your body from miles away. Internal injuries, you're bleeding, blacked eye, missing teeth... and then, when you wake up after surgery, you still won't exactly know what the fuck that thing was, and why it was trying to kill you.

....until your boss comes down, calls your team together, and tells you that there isn't much... but we've been tracking Jasons for years.

Orpheus sounds awesome...

Anything else to contribute /tg/?

I, for one, have heard very good things about Dogs in the Vineyard, although I've never had the opportunity to play it.

>>4381415

Kult, fuck yeah! Only RPG I've played where the goal is to go insane.

Obviously mention must go to all of the One Roll Engine stuff, for being awesome (Godlike, Wild Talents, Reign...)

But especially to Monsters & Other Childish Things.

"Have you ever secretly wanted to be best friends with a magical unicorn? His name would be Dewdrop, and he would talk to you with his thoughts, and he would carry you on his back away from bullies and parents and kids who don’t get you, and you’d have such wonderful adventures!"

"This game is pretty much like that. Except — well, Dewdrop is a little scary."

"In fact, if you drew what Dewdrop really looks like on your Trapper Keeper, they would send you to the principal’s office, then to the school counselor, and then perhaps to a place with a name like Morning Meadows Home for Disturbed and Psychotic Youth."

"Welcome to Monsters and Other Childish Things, a funny, frightening, action-packed roleplaying game about kids and the people who matter to them most — their friends, family and loved ones."

"And their horrifying pet monsters."

>>4381584
This sounds kinda like Little Fears. Insofar as actual mental health professionals were very upset that people actually think this is how children work.

Interestingly enough, I was thinking about talking a little about The Scary Alice in Wonderland game.... I can't remember what it's called.

It divides reality into 7 chessboards? Real world on top, Wonderland underneath... and once you see wonderland, you are infected, and when you are infected, you are more likely to accidentally pull neverland up to the surface with you...

>>4381584

I've seen monsters and other childish things on the shelves in my LGS. worth picking up?

>>4381616
Wait. I think this might be called Wonderland.

>>4380913
Shit sucks man. At least D20 Apoc had a faction in which you play FUCK HELL FUCK HEAVEN, SATAN AND YAHWEH YOU'RE BOTH ALREADY DEAD humans.

>>4380913
>>4381701

The only Angel/Demon game worth playing ever is In Nominae.

>>4381648

Very, very yes. I don't care if you never actually run it, the book is worth the price of admission just for the funny. I was pissing myself laughing from start to finish.

>>4381701
Remembers me of a campaign in which we killed God with a railgun.

We fired a spear made of Lucifer's bones in God's stomach, and left him in Heaven to die.

>>4381750

As someone whose really into angelic lore, I found In Nomine to be a little underwhelming. Its angels are too human and mundane. An angel shouldn't just be a different kind of person. Angels are an entire other form of existence, and I didn't get that.

Plus, In Nomine is a little too wrapped up in its own mythology for my tastes. I'd want an angel game which stays a little more true to the source material.

>>4381805

So what, sentient patrolling wheels with an eye in the middle?

'BEWARE, SATAN, THE POWER OF MY DIVINE SPOKES."

>>4381805
Play Call of Cthulhu then.

You know, SAN loss explains all the batshitinsane christians.

I mean, if I saw an amorphous blob of gold and antracite transforming in a 9 feet tall man with a lion as a head and wings made out of eyes I'd go crazy too.

>>4381828
>>4381823

I don't need Angels that are batshit insane mind destroying monsters. Just beings who work on a different level.

I saw an idea posted on /tg/ a few months ago, although it didn't get much notice. It was a homebrew game for angels, where rather than normal stats and skills, they had Virtues. If they had enough virtue to achieve something, they could achieve it. Their physical form or memory and skills are essentially irrelevant- Angels are living extensions of gods will, acting through virtue and in the name of virtue, limited by their means even as they act through them.

Then again, I love indie games with wierd mechanics and abstract stats.

I can only find 1st edition Kult on /rs/. Does anyone have a 3rd edition pdf?

>>4381319
Holy shit Orpheus sounds awesome. Does it exist as a pdf or what?

>>4381319
Is this all thge Orpheus stuff? The listing is from a Demonoid torrent:

Orpheus :

- Book 1 : Core Rule Book (2003)
- Book 2 : Crusade of Ashes (2003)
- Book 3 : Shades of Gray (2003)
- Book 4 : Shadow Games (2003)
- Book 5 : The Orphan Grinders (2004)
- Book 6 : End Game (2004)
- Book X : Terrel & Squib

>>4381919
This is the internet. Orpheus has been out for more than a month. There -are- pdfs.

>>4381937
As illustrated by >>4381927

>>4381908
1st edition is fine. 3rd has the two magic books 1st edition in it (but you don't need them) and combat and magic is streamlined a bit but the game is essentially the same.

ok arcane codex its only in german but the fluff is pretty good from what i have managed to glean as of yet.

and dont forget In Dark Alleys

>>4382041

In Dark Alleys? Haven't heard of it. What's it about?

>>4382129
kind of like CoC http://www.vajraenterprises.com/!IDA/index.htm

>>4381937
>>4381937

>2003

>Months

lol

>>4381616
>>4381692
There was a game, kinda like GURPS. I think it was called JAG or something, like Just Another Game. It was only on the internet, and you could download pdfs for it for free. They had a sourcebook for a freaky Wonderland, which is like what you're talking about.

>>4381692
Sounds nifty. Please do try and find out what it's called... and where to get it.

>>4382258

JAGS wonderland, I think it was

>>4382305
Found it.

JAGS Wonderland it is.

/rs/ it.

>>4382305

http://www.jagsrpg.org/

This it?

>>4381110
This link is dead, I don't suppose that someone might be kind kind enough to re-upload it? Pretty please?

>>4382407

re-upping now. please be patient.

There are two RP systems I'd recommend trying.

SoaP, the RPG:
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=253565

D02. Know No Limit!
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rdeese/RPG/D02/D02.htm

>>4382407

http://rapidshare.com/files/225263679/Don_t_Rest_Your_Head.pdf.html

Hopefully you are still there. Ah well, if anyone else wants it, it is fantastic. I can up DLYM too if anyone needs it.

>>4382609
I need it.
Also, KULT is the most grimdark setting ever. No exceptions.

>>4382609
I could use it :3

>>4382700
>>4382675

On it's way. Damn I'm generous today.

This thread is full of win by the way. For Monsters and Other Childish things alone. My girlfriend wants me to run a game just between her and I. The catch is she loves pokemon and wanted something with pet monsters. FUCKIN' BAM! You guys drop that in my lap. I love this place so much.

If you have any other good game suggestions keep 'em coming. Especially superhero games and pet monster games.

>>4382745
Thank you :3

>>4382745

There we go:

http://rapidshare.com/files/225272082/Don_t_Lose_Your_Mind__print_.pdf.html

Personally I think this is highly underrated. Everyone ignores it because of the wapanese part but that isn't the game. It is a simple and ultimately very enjoyable system for use with any complexity of world. I wanted to run a hilarious steampunk one off full of adventuring failures forming a band, do it in BESM. I thought "how cool would a board game be with little programs running around a board that represents a computer and killing bad guy viruses", run that shit through BESM. The only reason this game gets shit on is because someone thought everything is better with D20 slapped on it. When in truth NOTHING with D20 on it is worth the paper it is printed on. (not looking for a shitstorm or trolling I just want to yell at you guys sometimes for being so hung up on a shit system)

While Exalted is the top dog of the crunchy action games, its currently being kicked in the face by its philosophical Chinese alternative, Weapons of the Gods. With a very cool system, integrated and flowing mechanics for everything from martial arts to daoist magic and a interesting setting, drawing deeply on chinese lore, I'd heartily recommend it. Channel your Chi, and start your journey on the path of the Wulin today!

>>4380920
Sprechen sie Deütsch? Nein?
LECKE MISCH AM ARSCH!!!!

>>4382779

D20 core- i.e. D&D, is shit, I agree with you.

However, there are good games descended from it. Mutants and Masterminds, Iron Heroes and a couple of other D20 adaptations (the Horizon series spring to mind) serve to cultivate the ruleset into something worthwhile.

>>4382779
Thanks, bro. You just made my day.

Torg was the first roleplaying game I ever owned. I still have a special place in my heart for it.

>>4382788
>Translation:
>Talk to Deütsch? No?
>LEAK ON MIXING ARSCH!

....... Oooooooooookay.

No more games?

>>4382041
Arcane Codex has a rapist class

>>4382790

I have played two alternate D20 games, D20 modern (which was a blast whenever we weren't staring at the rulebook wondering what the hell went wrong) and Castles and Crusades (which wins the most boring RPG ever award from me, which is amazing because our DM was fucking awesome) so it might have just been looking at the wrong stuff. My point remains that a lot of games get overlooked here and elsewhere and I think we as a board should not just create endless "where is arcane power? threads" but also share stories about crazy alternate games and the fun to be had with them. Personally I am looking forward to Monsters and Other Childish things with all my heart. If anyone has stories or ideas to throw at me my goal is to have read the book and have a game ready for my girlfriend when she gets home after dinner time.

>>4382796
This is why this is the best board on 4chan

>>4382675
What about FATAL?

>>4382780
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. We play Weapons of the gods, it devolves into Xiaolin Showdown.

Not a complaint.

>>4382904

Sounds awesome.

>>4382904
>>4382958

The Shen Gong Wu are fictional mystical artifacts possessing magical powers featured in the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown. The powers of a Shen Gong Wu are activated when its name is called by the person who wishes to use it. "Shen Gong Wu" in Chinese means "holy skill thing" or literally "tool of God".


That's called science, ladies and gentlemen.

>>4383047

Did Scion ever get a Chinese ruleset?

>>4383181

In the companion, yeah.

Gabumpan!

>>4382780
I'm still waiting for a good Exalted -> WotG conversion myself.

Some more off the top of my head

Over The Edge- Like unknown armies, but better, stranger and scarier

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchhausen- A classic storytelling game, unique and wonderful

3;16, Carnage among the Stars- Rules light game with big macho space marines chewing their way through legions of alien baddies. Great fun.

Unknown Armies- Well known on /tg/. Still pretty obscure, but fucking awesome. Not as good as Over the Edge, but with some really nice fluff.

Alpha Omega is a cool post apoc sci-fi fantasy thing. Its rules heavy, but has some nice art and some interesting design choices. Its like a less focused version of shadowrun, with more ruins and destroyed shit around.

Bump for discussion

Also, why the fuck has No one mentioned ORE's various contributions? Reign, Wild Talents and Godlike are all fucking awesome games which deserve wider circulation.

Cthulhutech is well known on /tg/, but obscure elsewhere, and its a damn good game worth considering for any CoC, Delta Green, general Cyberpunk or general Mecha fans.

Second the bump!

Marauder 2107, an indie publisher (maelstrom hobby), published a game based in a post apocalyptic world (2107 A.D.). Anime look aside, and what not, the story has a somewhat dark twist starting in the 1990s.

Starts with economic slow down/melt down, throw in wars (both skirmish and full blown two nations slugging it out), Russia conquering Europe, and the U.S. implementing scorched Earth nuclear policy. Takes place in Japan, with the central part of Japan 'relatively' intact. But they have to deal with a genetics experiment gone wrong, producing Breeders, who hate and despise humans, and have varying levels of intelligence, from animal up to human.

>Orpheus. The best game from WW

>>4382172
Fates Worse Than Death by these people seem very promising. really gritty setting, reminds me of that DMZ comic.

>Degenesis
Fucked-up postapoca akin to Tribe8 or the more otherworldly aspects of Engel.

>Cold Steel Reign
Many comparisons have been made between this and King's Dark Tower series.

>SLA Industries
Grimdark action/horror scifi, where the PCs are sort of private contractor FBI agents in a city too big for its own good.

>>4384963
>> Grimdark action/horror scifi, where the PCs are sort of the bastard child between American Gladiators and Judge Dredd working for an undead Andrew Ryan fighting Cthulhu horrors in a city too big for its own good.

Fixed that for you.

>>4384996
truth

>>4383495
What would you say makes Over the Edge better than Unknown Armies?

Rêve: the Dream Ouroboros

I just love the mood of the thing. Rules are /heavy/, but can be disregarded as see fit. I'm really thinking of mixing some of the fluff with

Houses of The Blooded

Lovely, lovely system (in short: players success mean they get to narrate what they do instead of the DM); dripping with style.
Can't picture myself playing it in campaign (unless I *do* mix it with Rêve, then I can see it working)

Yuyake Koyake

I''m supposed to translate that from japanese, but am too fucking lazy. A very nice diceless game in wwich you play shapeshifting children trying to help the denizen of a small town. Lovely and refreshing once in a while (no abuse though, death by cute overdose is looming)

>>4381805

In Nomine's supposed to be a hugely tongue-in-cheek game, nothing serious about it, which I think the english translaters never got (I still have that scenario somwhere where you play angels trying to prevent a demon from becoming the next Miss France... so, yeah for respect of canon lore).

>>4384963
The part about "city too big for its own good" makes me think of Blame! Is that an accurate comparison?

Continuum is fucking awesome if you can wrap your head around it.

Also, when the fuck is Eclipse Phase being released?

>>4382824
"Sprechen sie Deütsch?" can mean "Do you speak German?"

>>4385115
>Yuyake Koyake
>I''m supposed to translate that from japanese, but am too fucking lazy. A very nice diceless game in wwich you play shapeshifting children trying to help the denizen of a small town. Lovely and refreshing once in a while (no abuse though, death by cute overdose is looming)

I've heard fun things about this.

>>4383959

I did. See >>4381584

I usually try to reign it in (no pun intended) on that stuff because I'm such a rabid ORE fanboy that everyone just starts rolling their eyes. It's definitely one of my favourite systems. Love just mucking around to see what I can do with it, trying to find out just how far I can stretch the various incarnations of the rules without them breaking.

>>4387304

If you want to have a look at what a game of it look like, the game artist, Ike, made a manga on the game.

Name is ねこむすめ道草日記.

I can try to upload some, but my connection's so slow the first tome won't be there before5/6 hours at best.


I'm still weirded out this is from the same team that did Zettai Dorei (絶対奴隷) aka the hentai manga RPG.

>>4387535

I grabbed all the ORE books after they were mentioned here and started reading Monsters and Other Childish things. The system seems sexy, really, really sexy. Anything I should be aware of though. The reason I am so into this is that my current group won't let go of WW's Aberrant rules. Which if anyone has ever played is fun and just brilliant however highly imbalanced. This is sort of similar and it seems very reasonable and balanced. So I was thinking of using either Godlike or Wild Talents to replace the system we currently use. Again the question is any pitfalls or concerns about the ORE system that I should know about.

>>4385194

...Thank you so much for that. With the new perspective that its not meant to be super-serious, I reread a bit of In Nomine and not only does it make a lot more sense, it becomes a much more interesting game! I'll agree the translators seem to have missed that side of it, so its only obvious when you're looking for it.

I have a fondness of Time Lord, owing to my being a huge Doctor Who fan

Anon here, suggesting this thread be archived? The listings within would be quite useful. I've saved a copy myself, but other people might want to access it.

This is a good thread. It has many examples of games much better than D&D. Edition wars are pointless, because all D&D is shit.

>>4391947

Here! Here!

Though I find myself oddly craving it's numbingly moronic game play and setting. A couple sessions and that should be out of my system. Then on to Godlike or Wild Talents I should think.

>>4392229

You could give HOL a shot.

>>4392244

HOL? what's that?

>>4385209

More probably it's something closer to the Megacities from Judge Dredd.

>>4392257

Human Occupied Landfill.

Contains countless parodies of other systems. Humorous.

>>4392322

I'll be certain to look into it

>>4382609
>>4382779

http://rapidshare.com/files/225201426/Don_t_Rest_Your_Head_-_Corebook.pdf.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/225263679/Don_t_Rest_Your_Head.pdf.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/225272082/Don_t_Lose_Your_Mind__print_.pdf.html

FFFFFF....!!!! Rapidshare download limit.

Could anyone of you please reup those files...somewhere else?

>>4392438

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0O26M7Q0

>>4392492

Is the core book. Sorry, shoulda been clear

>>4392524

Thank you very much.

Gah, Don't Lose Your Mind isn't uploading properly... Anyone else got it? I don't want to deny Anon such godly sourcebooks

Agon, FUCK YEAH.

>Agon supports fast-paced, competitive play, with mechanics designed to create an even playing field for players and the game master. Oath-swearing and trash-talking are highly encouraged.

>>4393079
To expand, you play a hero in ancient Greece trying to bring glory to your god. You do so by competing against the other players in tasks of greatness, trying to outdo eachother (although cooperatively most of the time--think of Gimli and Legolas leeping a kill-count sort of thing).

>>4393100
>>4393079

Sounds cool. Any more info on the system etc?

>>4393118
System uses traits that are represented by dice (the more powerful the trait, the higher the range on the die). You roll this die in conjunction with one or two others (usually a Lineage die and I think a God die), and the highest number on any of them is the result. Most rolls are contested.

The GM also gets points to spend on "contests" everytime the party takes a rest (which can be encounters or other challenges). So you might be weak after a battle, but if your party chooses to recover, the GM gets more stuff to throw at you. It works out very nicely and keeps a nice ebb and flow to the gameplay.

The game is also very rules-lite, and character creation is literally maybe 10 pages. There are also random tables in the back for the GM to generate quests/goals/locales for the party to compete, and the backstory is that they're sailing through this area with tons of different islands, so it all works out nicely.

>>4393167

Sounds awesome. Where can you purchase it, and has it been pirated? (I like to try before I buy)

>>4393167
Also, the pdf is on rs, but if you really like it the PDF is only ten bucks, hard copy is 20. It was all developed by one guy and is probably one of the most well-polished indie RPGs I've played. I really don't see anything inherently "wrong" with the system--it just works.

>>4393187
http://www.agon-rpg.com/

Lulu is the main distributor. PDF is on /rs/ I believe, and if not then probably on a torrent.

>>4393207

Thanks very much for the info, it looks like an awesome game.

Bump for more!

Will probably have to be re-uploaded fast.

http://rapidshare.com/files/225712291/Agon_RPG.7z.html

Glad I could help understand In Nomine...

+1 vote for Höl.

Badumpa

This thread is still here? Sweet!

>>4391246

The major pitfalls of ORE as a system mostly come down to the constraints of it's core concept. ORE plays a delicate balancing act between rules light and realistic, and that can be difficult at times.

A lot of players dislike the idea that Width, which represents the speed of a task, and determines initiative, also determines base damage for an attack, when height it meant to measure quality. The designers (I believe rightly) argue that location matters more, in terms of "quality of damage" than a small variation in the raw damage figures. Which is all well and good, but problematic when Heavy Armour reduces the Width of an attack, and some of the special moves in Reign rely on Width as a measure of quality.

It might be better to consider Width as "Power" and Height as "Precision". So a powerful action is fast, damaging, and hard to block all of. A precise action is also more difficult to block (since Heavy Armour is basically a block roll that is always rolling tens, so it just happens to be really good at blocking), and is generally performed with more finesse.

Hard Dice create the effects of high precision, but in really imprecise ways. So a precise shot kills someone because it hits them in the head, whereas a Hard Dice shot just blows their guts all over the place, or something equally blunt and messy. It's not precise, it's just really fucking deadly (this part actually comes from the Godlike FAQ regarding Hard Dice and describing the effects).

I also tend to avoid applying difficulties in favour of applying dice penalties if I just want to say "The action is more likely to fail." I use difficulty when there are degrees of success, so "Any match, you hear a noise. A mid range match (4-7) you make out that it's a voice, and a high match (8+) means you actually catch the words."

I uploaded all the published material on Kult a few months ago, it's here if anyone wants it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6OWGXQG7

>>4381908
Kult: Beyond the Veil is on Demonoid.

>>4392309
Not necessarily. Both interpretations are sure to be found in a continent-covering metroplex built upon for 900+ years.

>>4397726

Protip: Don't actually try to use Kult's rules system, it's pretty hideous.

Run it in Unknown Armies or Nemesis instead. Just swap out the madness rules.

>>4398650

I would've thought to use Unisystem.

From Indie Press Revolution:

>Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries

>"It's like Agon meets The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, on the clock!" - Fred Hicks, author of Don't Rest Your Head and co-author of Spirit of the Century

>>4398692

That too. Basically anything fast and light, but brutal.

>>4387296
There's no umlaut in "Deutsch," Dummscheisse.

I'd like to throw Aces & Eights into the mix.

Apocalypse Prevention, Inc.

Think Men in Black with demons.

ねこむすめ道草日記:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8B1MU5F6

(There's a latent eroticism I find troublesome, but apart from that, it is a good summing up of what a game of Yuyake Koyake plays like... I personally love chapter nine and it's flight from cold)

>>Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries

It's on my next batch of IPR books to buy (along with Houses of Blooded). Hope it lives up to its hype.

Also, glancing through my library, I felt compelled to add: Hurlements. An old french game in which you play members of a medieval caravan. Light system, driping with mood (if you've read Les compagnons du crépuscules via /co you know the kind it is aiming at).

OP here. Holy fuck, this thread has gone further than I would consider possible. two days old, and masses of awesome content. You rock /tg/! My bank account is gonna be empty for months...

I like Runequest, and the Glorantha setting in general. Yeah, i know it's weird.
Also enjoy Hackmaster.Once in a while....=)

>>4398794

...That sounds fucking awesome

>>4400708
Meatwad reigns supreme

Anyone have a scanned copy of Zettai Dorei?

Reading through Agon... its fucking awesome, thanks to whoever recommended it, and whoever linked it. A competitive RPG... such a cool concept.

Spaceship Zero

The players are the crew of Spaceship Zero, a spaceship with an experimental Better Than Light Drive. On their first test they accidentally destroy and restart the universe. In theory everything should be the same, so they set a course to where Earth should be and reduce themselves to Essential Saltes to wait out the billions of years till they get back and Earth should be back to how it was.

In theory.

In this universe, the Earth has been invaded by the Hydronauts, fishmen from outer space who have come to enslave humanity and transform the Earth into a colony. Enter the heroic PC's to save the day.

Basically it's pulpy radio serial Sci-fi with hefty doses of Lovecraft. The systems' pretty simple: skills based on d100s, characters built around archetypes which give them a skill base and a few special abilities, like a Doctor can bring someone back from the dead with a suitable technobabble explanation ("I'm restarting his heart by applying an electromagnetic charge to his corneal nerve!"), pilots can do crazy-ass flying shit and scientists can invent things on the fly.

The players have Zero dice which they get from doing well in their core skills, which can be used to reroll skill checks, save them from death or to make that "It's a 1 in a million chance!" shot.

Overall, we found it to be great fun. The system's simple, the universe is well fleshed out but has plenty of potential for doing whatever the fuck you want and flying about in space shooting down marauding alien invaders will never get old.

>>4400970

Also it has a slave girl archetype. Whose ability is to latch on to the leg of the hero and look sexy to give him a bonus.

I fucking love playing Polaris.

>>4400970

Fucking awesome... What's the retail on it, and is it easy to track down?

>>4401479
This is a thread about obscure RPGs they're not going to be easy to find, baka.

>>4401493
>baka

Are you fucking kidding me?

>>4401504
Why so baka?

>>4401149

Polaris?

>>4401479

Well maybe it's not too obscure.

>>4401529

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971438099/greenroninpub-20

Forgot my link

My Life With Master is about playing a horrible minion of a sinister master, trying to find humanity but lacking the will to defy the one you serve. It's been discussed here before. It could easily be My Life With Inquisitor, or My Life With House, etc.

>>4384963

If you've read the SUPER DUPER SECRET BACKGROUND DOCUMENT ON TOTALLY IRRELEVANT METAPLOT, what SLA Industries is really about is how much Glasgow freaking sucks.

>>4380681
Does anyone know where I can get a hard copy of The Riddle of Steel? I've checked various places, and I can't even find a place to get it used.

>>4402130

People need a game to tell them how much Galsgow sucks?

Anyone actually played Trollbabe ?

Seems like a game made /tg

More seriously on the Ron Edwards front... anyone actually played and enjoyed Sorcerer ?

Ork! The RPG up in this summamumbitch

buuuump

three days up? quite a long time for a thread, even for /tg/

>>4404129

In the old days (about six months ago), some threads lasted a week! seven whole days, sustained by a moderate level of consistent posting, assuring it never fell off the board, nor went into autosage. Those were simpler times.

Complex game, but probably the most rewarding game experience I've ever had with an RPG.

>>4404129

I love that setting so much.

>>4404513

Really, really want to buy this game (should have along with other games from IPR last time I bought from them, but it just disapeared from their catalogue) and try it. Loving what I've read of the system so far. And that convention scenario ("The Gift" ?) is just pure genius, if I dare say so.
Not really won over by the scirpted combat system though.

Any other game (apart from Warhammer, if I remember well) using something similar to lifepaths (the more I think about it, the more I salivate for WoD-style fluff lifepaths) ?

One day I _will_ find enough people who want to play this game. One day.

;_;

Bump to try and enlighten the savages- Other games exist which are not D&D, and they are better!

something

>>4404658
Well you have at least 1 person if you live in MN.

>>4399691
Do elaborate.

>>4405140

these games seem like a bunch of words to me

>>4406726
>Agon
>competitive beer & pretzels RPG
>words

wat.


Anywho, I'm glad to see this thread is still going. Definitely checking out Lesser Shades of Evil.